Anyone know a good lawyer

CatmanV2

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Evening chaps

There's some scrappy land behind mine and my neighbours' houses that we've been trying to buy. The local council have been shall we say, less than interested in making any progress and have now said 'Ah, we're not selling any land until our plans are approved in the Autumn and anyway, we've found a load of covenants on that bit so it would never have been sold anyway'

Now it may be true. But my finely honed commercial sense smells BS and an easy cop out.

So anyone know a lawyer that might be able to advise? Personal recommendation here would be best.

Cheers

C
 

Wack61

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Help with planning you say, I know just the geezer

The price is quite high, might be a month, might be a year but they will come knocking.

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lifes2short

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Evening chaps

There's some scrappy land behind mine and my neighbours' houses that we've been trying to buy. The local council have been shall we say, less than interested in making any progress and have now said 'Ah, we're not selling any land until our plans are approved in the Autumn and anyway, we've found a load of covenants on that bit so it would never have been sold anyway'

Now it may be true. But my finely honed commercial sense smells BS and an easy cop out.

So anyone know a lawyer that might be able to advise? Personal recommendation here would be best.

Cheers

C

get a title number and then get the land registry docs, any covenants will be noted etc

https://www.landregistryonline.org.uk/land-registry-documents/
 

Felonious Crud

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Local council planning departments always seem to be well funded by private donors*. They're also lazy, so you tend to need private representation when submitting or contesting anything because there's a fair chance they won't be arsed to do their jobs with much diligence. Oh, and they'd try to build a house on a fecking postage stamp given half a chance lately, the more so now Bozza has announced that the UK will build itself out of possible recession. My point is, if a builder with which they're friendly has his eye on that land you'll need to roll your sleeves up and get scrappy, because the default answer is 'yes, how many stories?'. Could it be built on?

*allegedly.
 
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And post on 911UK - everyone there (all 42,315 members) is an expert on everything and anything and University Professor standard on anything Porsche, especially DIY......
 

CatmanV2

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You’re asking in the wrong place. Just pop a post on Facebook, everyone’s an expert in everything on there. :)

Karen told me to ask here ;)

I think my favourite this week is the video showing the 5G antenna in the mask the government wants you to wear. It goes right over your nose so you're breathing the 5G straight in.....

I'll leave it to the assembled to work out what the antenna is.

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lifes2short

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Bozza has announced that the UK will build itself out of possible recession

high street will be all residential soon if his proposed plan to allow shops to be converted in to resi under permitted development goes ahead, offices already have benefited from PD to convert in to flats for a number of years
 

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I hope a lawyer can help and you get to buy the land, but unless I have misread your post I wounded hold up much hope.

Surely you can’t force someone to sell something if they don’t want to.
 

safrane

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If its council owned surely they would need to put it in the open market to sell... otherwise it would fail audit compliance for disposal of an asset.
 

CatmanV2

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I hope a lawyer can help and you get to buy the land, but unless I have misread your post I wounded hold up much hope.

Surely you can’t force someone to sell something if they don’t want to.
If its council owned surely they would need to put it in the open market to sell... otherwise it would fail audit compliance for disposal of an asset.

No idea :)

C
 

CatmanV2

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high street will be all residential soon if his proposed plan to allow shops to be converted in to resi under permitted development goes ahead, offices already have benefited from PD to convert in to flats for a number of years

We have experience of that here. Office blocks converted to residential purpose and the let out to other councils as homeless shelters. Great idea in theory. The conditions are horrific though :(

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allandwf

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I have a piece of land next to me, I can get servitude of access, perhaps this is an option depending on your plans for it.
 

flexwing

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Evening chaps

There's some scrappy land behind mine and my neighbours' houses that we've been trying to buy. The local council have been shall we say, less than interested in making any progress and have now said 'Ah, we're not selling any land until our plans are approved in the Autumn and anyway, we've found a load of covenants on that bit so it would never have been sold anyway'

Now it may be true. But my finely honed commercial sense smells BS and an easy cop out.

So anyone know a lawyer that might be able to advise? Personal recommendation here would be best.

Cheers

C
Hi there, without seeing a plan I can only give you general advice. Is the area of land "landlocked" without access to a road etc? Have you enjoyed access to it over a number of years? Does it form a shortcut with people using it regularly? Depending on the answer to these questions will give a feeling how successful you might be.
If there is any development potential then the Council will probably be required to market the area of land rather than just sell to yourselves.
A wee trip to the Planning dept would be useful and if you are given the honour of actually speaking to someone then you will be advised what land use is possible within your local plan. You should be able to access your local development plan on line.
Knowing what account the land is on would be useful too as you can then focus attention on the relevant councillor and dept official. The dept that owns the land will need to declare it surplus before it can be sold.
Sorry if teaching granny etc and Englandshire processes may well be different but I suspect the principles will be the same as up here.
Looking at the title would be useful and there maybe a reference in your own title if your property ajoins the area of land in question.